Even Victoria’s Chief Health Officer admits it: coronavirus restrictions have been arbitrary
Early this week, Liberal Democrat David Limbrick MP asked an excellent science question of the Victorian Chief Medical Officer appearing…
How we’ve cooled on China
Welcome to the political chaos theory –- or, should we say, fact: a bat flapping its wings in China produces…
Elon Musk slays California’s anti-business beast
After a lengthy battle with public health officials in Alameda County, California, Elon Musk has emerged victorious. Tesla — the…
Without fossil fuels, the Wuhan Flu would have us beat
Number six in Craig Kelly’s series 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’…
Germany’s coronavirus protests are a big headache for Merkel
Where Brits have voiced their opposition to the coronavirus lockdown, they’ve mostly done so from their own homes over the…
Covid has exposed the weakness of Whitehall
Britain has long flattered itself that it leads the world in administration. But, as I write in the magazine this week,…
Britain should break the taboo on ‘challenge vaccines’
So far, so good: the Oxford university trials on a potential vaccine for Covid-19 is reported to be going well.…
Is the R number a flawed measure?
Boris Johnson’s address on Sunday was always going to be challenging. The effects of Covid-19 – in terms of its…
Will coronavirus change the way we talk about death?
Every generation has an event that defines it. For my father, it was the Second World War. For his father,…
Corona college
The corona/Wuhan/Covid-19 virus has done an excellent job of educating everyone in Australia regardless of politics — except for Bob…
Is tomorrow’s School Strike 4 Climate still on?
Now that CNN has decided Greta Thunberg is an expert on coronavirus, we’re wondering if tomorrow’s School Stike 4 Climate…
This pandemic is about more than identity politics. True
Australia’s National LGBTI Health Alliance has said of coronavirus “We acknowledge the panic, frustration, confusion and uncertainty felt by many…
Oil on troubled waters: the US-Saudi alliance is crumbling
Donald Trump said in October 2018 that the Saudi royal family ‘wouldn’t last two weeks’ without American military support. Last…
Biden busted? Dems and the media circle the wagons over Flynn unmasking
Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell dropped a massive bombshell in the counter-investigation on Russiagate, which President Trump has…
This is what a lockdown economy looks like
Straight from the horse’s mouth — with an important qualification. The ABS has changed its definitions. This means people paid…
Pigs might fly – and the left might for once admit their errors
It took the coughing fit of the Treasurer for some real claws to come out. “It’s not a good look now…
When money dies
This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. ‘Money for Nothing’ is more than just…
Cuomo’s COVID carnage
Have we reached peak Cuomo? I think that the climacteric came when the media was aflutter with rumors that the…
Just what’s going on in Queensland politics?
Queensland’s recent local government elections, combined with two state by-elections, provide a window into what might happen at the next…
Boris’s sloppy PMQs performance is becoming a problem
A former prime minister once told me that PMQs in the Commons is an event that can only be enjoyed…
How to save our nightlife after coronavirus
The one certainty about crisis is that it makes bad situations worse. Anyone working in restaurants, pubs, cafes and clubs…
Why Japan doesn’t clap for its key workers
There has certainly been no shortage of praise for the NHS over recent weeks, and the speed at which the…
Alan Jones, tribune of the people
David Flint writes: Alan Jones, probably the most influential commentator in the Australian media has announced his retirement from leading…
Look at our history: protectionism doesn’t work
We rarely think about supply chains – those immensely complex networks of production and logistics that structure the economy. That…
Let’s use this crisis to tackle Britain’s woeful skills shortage
Training. What a turn-off. The very word casts a shadow over the page. That is partly because it has become…
